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The Nightly Necklace: Queen Maxima’s Blue Gemstone Necklace

04.22.2020 by The Court Jeweller // Leave a Comment

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Queen Maxima of the Netherlands wears a necklace and earrings set with blue gemstones (perhaps tanzanites?), moonstones, and sapphires for a gala dinner supporting the Princess Maxima Center for Children’s Oncology in Amsterdam, September 2017; see a close-up over here!

The Nightly Necklace: The Dutch Diamond Trellis Necklace

04.21.2020 by The Court Jeweller // Leave a Comment

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Princess (now Queen) Maxima of the Netherlands wears the family’s diamond trellis necklace as she arrives at Buckingham Palace for the Prince of Wales’s 60th birthday party, November 2008; the necklace, which can also be worn with interchangeable rubies or sapphires, was Queen Emma’s wedding present to Queen Wilhelmina in 1901

The Nightly Necklace: The Queen Mother’s Pearls

04.20.2020 by The Court Jeweller // Leave a Comment

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Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (later the Queen Mother) wears a triple strand of pearls as she sits beside Eleanor Roosevelt in a procession during the royal visit to Washington, August 1939; the Queen Mother owned numerous pearl necklaces, and it’s often difficult (or sometimes even impossible!) to distinguish between them